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I believe it's closer to $1 TRILLION, and forecast by the nonpartisan CBO to continue rising after a decline during the Obama years: www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/us-budget-deficit-expands-to-779-billion-in-fiscal-2018-as-spending-surges.html Quite right, In addition unfunded corporate pension liabilities are not included in the national debt. S&P 500’s Biggest Pension Plans Face $382 Billion Funding Gap https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-corporate-pensions/ Your Pension Is a Lie: There's $210 Trillion Of Liabilities Our Government Can't Fulfill https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2017/10/10/your-pension-is-a-lie-theres-210-trillion-of-liabilities-our-government-cant-fulfill/#1dead00c65b1 Instead of closing the gap US companies are buying back stock and issuing dividends Nor, US state unfunded pension liabilities. How Big Is Your State’s Share of $6 Trillion in Unfunded Pension Liabilities? https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/how-big-your-states-share-6-trillion-unfunded-pension-liabilities Debt Myths, Debunked The "government" is composed of federal, state and local governments, government agencies and government-sponsored enterprises. Ultimately, taxpayers are responsible for all these bodies' debts. The federal government's financial obligations total about $120 trillion. U.S. state and local governments officially owe $3 trillion and have another $5 trillion in unfunded liabilities themselves. Federal agencies and government sponsored enterprises owe another $8 trillion, which is not included in the federal government's numbers. This brings total U.S. government obligations to over $135 trillion, conservatively estimated. https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2016-12-01/myths-and-facts-about-the-us-federal-debt .

Based on these numbers, it looks like a continuation of the recovery that has been going on since around 2012/2013: How real is Trump's jobs 'miracle'? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46075879 Enlighten us on what Obama did to create this. Why President Trump's Tax Cuts Are Making The U.S. Trade Deficit Bigger https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/08/31/why-president-trumps-tax-cuts-are-making-the-trade-deficit-bigger/#3d4424d148e3 How Debt Could Blow Up the Trump Economy http://fortune.com/2018/03/15/us-national-debt-trump-tax-cuts/ Companies invest in the "tools of production" i.e. Capex when taxation and economic prospects are favorable for sound returns on investment. None of which is happening. All of which was forecast by economists before the tax cuts were implemented. Unexpected Drop in U.S. Worker Productivity Casts Doubt on Trump’s Economic Target http://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2018/02/01/unexpected-drop-u-s-worker-productivity-casts-doubt-trumps-economic-target/#sthash.ce2L7V7l.dpbs So How Are Trump’s Tax Cuts Actually Working Out for the Economy? https://observer.com/2018/08/trump-tax-cuts-drive-stock-buybacks/ But new studies show that the extra profits reaped by corporations from the tax cuts are going in a different direction. Instead of the money being spent on workers and job creation, corporations have amped up buybacks—investing in their own stock. Ever since the new tax law was signed on December 22 of last year, announcements of plans to buy back stock have poured out of Wall Street. A newly released report from POLITICO shows that CEOs have overwhelmingly used the extra capital generated from Trump’s reduction of the corporate tax rate for “insider sales.” Read, learn and be "enlightened".

Right, much easier to just fight among each other and lose our lives over some statue rather than attack the source of the problem. At least we'll have some good footage, headlines and facebook stories to broadly damn the conservatives at the expense of the deceased. . . No wonder nobody trusts liberals/democrats to get anything done. . . Like there has been a -"Wall built, paid for by Mexico", -a "infrastructure plan to rebuild America", - "Hillary Clinton locked up" - "a plan to fix immigration" All promised by trump, none of which was forthcoming. How many bills has Trump signed into law in his first 500 days — and how does it compare to past presidents? ...According to GovTrack,... NBC News counted each piece of legislation passed under Trump and the previous four presidents and removed those that simply named, commemorated, awarded or appointed an individual, group or cause. Under that count, Trump is also about on par with his previous two successors. Of the 176 bills he has signed into law, 132 are classified as substantive, compared to 118 for Obama and 133 for George W. Bush. But George H.W. Bush and Clinton are far ahead of all three, clocking in at 170 and 177. https://www.nbcnews.com/card/how-many-bills-has-trump-signed-law-his-first-500-n879886 trump's biggest? The tax cuts to be paid for by increased economic performance. trump Says GDP of '4, 5, and Even 6%' Is possible all paid for by the tax cuts. in fact the growth was paid for by debt placed upon US children who will have to pay for it. A truth!. trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HWI4Y6GWNg as long as bankruptcy or someone else pays for his economic missteps. The foundations of sound arguments are facts, documented. Not giberdybabble.

Not so much anger, more despair that humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes agin. I know, what a miserable life Eeyore. What are we ever going to do about all these stupid humans? What would you be doing with your day if you weren't so intent on telling Franco how silly he's being for responding to posts on here that don't materially affect him? You see where I'm going with that... right? Called trolling. Why would he be "angry" when it is merely one of the factors that explains why the US ranks poorly in its democratic institutions performance and transparency. Why the US trails Nordic and other G-7 countries in opportunity for young people. Gerrymandering, the Christian right, the mistaken concepts of social mobility, overindulgence influence of the military, etc. All mix together in US politics outweighing health care, social programs, etc. That other industrialized countries rank higher. Science? Well someone in another thread is currently trolling that science and Christians beliefs operate hand in glove. Yet for US Christian groups abortion is almost the sole political driver of their thinking.

Mostly in Norway where they enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world.... Funny though...to gain citizenship in Norway you must learn their language. We should do that here! Good idea, you should learn the Caddoan language, Plains Cree, Iroquois, etc.

$1 billion annual deficit. Increase in current account deficit. increase in trade deficit. Net wage increase only matching inflation. Second year of declining life expectancy of Americans. America's standing in the world has dropped America, getting tired from so much winning.

Confessions of a Mortal Diver: Learning the Hard Way http://www.bishopmuseum.org/research/treks/palautz97/cmd.html

trump, Christians, republicans, nuttier and nuttier. "Washington state Rep. Matt Shea (R) has a long history of extremism, but a newly unveiled document demonstrates his desire to violently impose dogmatic Christianity on the world. In his “Biblical Basis for War” manifesto that was leaked last week, he lays out an expectation that others surrender to biblical obedience, including an end to abortion and marriage for same-sex couples." https://thinkprogress.org/washington-state-lawmaker-matt-shea-biblical-basis-for-war-1675753b0bc8/ His manifesto: https://www.spokesman.com/documents/2018/oct/25/biblical-basis-war/ Republican Politician's 'Biblical Basis for War' Called for Killing All Non-Christian Men Who Don't 'Yield' https://www.newsweek.com/republican-politicians-biblical-basis-war-kill-non-christians-washington-1197703

Da, mother Russia will do what is necessary to keep its puppet in power.

Like trumps efforts to help working Americans? In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/10/america-wage-growth-is-getting-wiped-out-entirely-by-inflation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.737adeeacd50 Trump's Economic Scorecard: Higher Inflation, Flat Wages And A Ballooning Federal Deficit https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/08/11/trumps-economic-scorecard-higher-inflation-flat-wages-and-a-ballooning-federal-deficit/#41b807ee22fa

And if they don't, will you blame Trump? No. He’ll blame illegal immigrants voting in their millions, hacked voting machines, DNC interference with republican voters, a shadow conspiracy to hide ‘true’ results or Obama. Says the party that's running around going Russia Russia Russia Russia Oh thanks for the irony in the laugh. You can't make this shit up you said? 40% of Republicans say Russia is an ally or friendly, up from 22% in 2014 https://news.gallup.com/poll/237137/republicans-positive-relations-russia.aspx When they deliver stolen e-mails when requested....

And if they don't, will you blame Trump? No. He’ll blame illegal immigrants voting in their millions, hacked voting machines, DNC interference with republican voters, a shadow conspiracy to hide ‘true’ results or Obama. and hackers from Iran, China.

You have a rare gift for simplifying to the point of absurdity. Leaving aside the fact that I don't think anyone wants to advocate a strictly feudal military dictatorship - do you think the continuous social disturbances, peasant uprisings and attempted coup d'etats of the Edo period would qualify as 'stability' in modern society? Please, explain. I thought about responding but such novel ideals wrapped in trolling. Combined with the futility of actually seeing a response with concrete in the foundation of the answer. Precluded that brief idea. Carry on.

What could be done about that? "knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell ... I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise." "I'd like to punch him in the face." "Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" (about man who attacked a reporter) Yes, The Deadly Consequences of Dog-Whistle Politics https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/27/the-deadly-consequences-of-dog-whistle-politics/ Poland, the US, non-critical minds led and manipulated by political agendas.

Here’s how to slow illegal immigration from Central America, Trump official says Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told a group of Latin American leaders Friday that the United States’ insatiable demand for illegal drugs has fueled the violence in Central America that’s driving migrants to the United States. Kelly blamed the United States’ doing “almost nothing” about drug demand and he described the networks that serve that demand as a source of many of the region’s economic and security problems.... Kelly once wrote in a column for the military newspaper Army Times that blamed U.S. demand for the creation of an incredibly efficient criminal network that transports drugs, people, terrorists and potentially weapons of mass destruction. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article148939604.html

Evangelicals Argue Against US Reducing Refugees to 30,000 Trump administration says Christians in Iraq face genocide; only 18 have been allowed to resettle in America this year. https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/september/refugee-resettlement-trump-pompeo-asylum-immigration.html Churches Are Twice as Likely to Fear Refugees as to Help Them “Pastors believe Scripture tells Christians to care for refugees and foreigners,” said Ed Stetzer, executive director of the Nashville-based organization. “Yet many admit their church is not involved in such ministry.”... Still, researchers found few churches have taken steps to aid refugees.... But pastors also say their churches are twice as likely to fear refugees as they are to help them, according to a new survey from LifeWay Research. https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/february/churches-fear-refugees-lifeway-survey-world-relief-vision.html Christian refugees admitted to US down more than 50% under Trump https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/christian-refugees-fall-under-trump In order to avoid the bayonet on the M4 to achieve freedom.On the US border in a trump world. One must be white and Christian.

US trade deficit in goods widens for fourth straight month, hits $76 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/us-trade-deficit-widens-for-fourth-straight-month-hits-76-billion.html China’s record trade surplus with the US shows Trump’s strategy is “failing” https://www.vox.com/2018/10/12/17967422/china-trade-war-us-trump-deficit

Billy Graham Center Explains Survey on Evangelical Trump Voters https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/october/evangelicals-trump-2016-election-billy-graham-center-survey.html The institute listed its initial key findings: 1. Issues matter more than character. 2. The issue of abortion appears to matter more than party. 3. Many evangelicals are reluctant to criticize their leaders when they disagree. 4. Evangelicals value politics more than non-evangelicals. So Leaders will decide the narrative, which will not be questioned or challenged, issues will drive the agenda regardless of character. These political objectives will decide the strength of the group. Definition, cult.

So if and when it is found that the people who sent the bombs are far right wing Trump supporters, you will admit that Trump is evil? Never. Ron wants this thing called SHTF so much he can taste the sweetness. For him it would be a clear validation of prophecy. The icing on the cake, of course, would be watching a bunch of pansey's get their asses kicked. It's just astonishing how many are like him these day's. Who could imagine that nearly two years after Trump was elected he could still rally crowds of morons chanting the same false crap they chanted during the campaign? No one is doing a goddamn thing to these people except living their own lives as they see fit and yet they pray for anarchy as if their kids were being taken away to gay conversion factories and their wives were forced to cook Hillary Clinton's recipes. And now bombs are being sent to innocent people and they, and their nitwit president, think it's just desserts. It's lunacy. But imagine the life lived dreaming, planning, and praying for SHTF. But all of that goes for naught.That a perceived white messiah has arrived and his name is trump. That planning for the arrival of the messenger. Stockpiling food, building secure compounds, assembling bug out bags, bulk packs of .556 ammo, etc.( Sound familiar Marc?) Is all sidetracked because the messiah is instead a fraudster, a false prophet. Sent by god to test believers. To separate the children of god from the pretenders and unworthy. That Ron was tempted by "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", by Breitbart, etc. That he succored to the temptations that filled his mind with the teachings of other false prophets.

As I have been saying for over two years now, it is very reminiscent of the early days of the Third Reich. One only has to read The Rise & Fall of the Third Reich to see the commonality. Kristallnacht anyone? Jerry Baumchen Or, Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Deep State anyone? GOP House candidate receives letter threatening his children https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/413072-gop-house-candidate-receives-letter-threatening-his-children Is this really a direction that benefits America? Robert De Niro and Joe Biden receive suspected mail bombs similar to those sent to top Dems and CNN https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/robert-de-niros-nyc-restaurant-reportedly-receives-suspected-mail-bomb-similar-to-those-sent-to-top-democrats-and-cnn.html Are terror acts against people that voice democratic positions but who work as ordinary Americans. A country you want?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/ It's sad there are so many people like you whose only goal is to prevent any kind of progress. You disregard the vast majority of science which overwhelmingly supports human caused climate change, and cherry pick articles and blatantly bullshit blogs to convince yourself it's not true. And for what? You think you're winning something besides a more polluted world to live in? Well he gets those ideas right from the horse's ass: Trump: Climate change scientists have 'political agenda' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45859325 trump says stuff like that as he talks to his base, The BBC reports comments like that and the whole world laughs at Americans.

Trolling perhaps. The CIA is but an arm of the state. Generally speaking they act only under the direction of the president.To the benefit of the state. Mohammed bin Salman in the Case of Canadian criticism. The murder of the WP journalist and Saudi citizen. Has proven exactly what he is about. Molded in the thinking of Putin and trump. He seems to believe that any criticism attacks his ego. Punishment all out of proportion is his response. Canada, the US have all responded the same way. Business as usual. Canada knows that the armored vehicle sales agreement. Will supply weapons to be used against the Saudi Shia minority. Used to kill Yemeni civilians. But jobs trump integrity. Just as they did when the CIA meddled in Iranian elections to prop up the monarchy. One that tortured and abused dissidents. Don't forget its the Saudi textbooks, Saudi Mullahs that taught the 9/11 hijackers their twisted religious dogma.That gave rise to Al Qaeda, to IS. ...Oh, then again there is the Qatar boycott. Mohammed bin Salman's personal vendetta against anyone who wants to negotiate or compromise with Iran. Kind of reminds me of how another despot conducts his negotiations, trump. Saudi Arabia 'destabilising Arab world', German intelligence warns https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/12029546/Saudi-Arabia-destabilising-Arab-world-German-intelligence-warns.html But what the hell. Let the US pour in $110 billion in weapons. Canada $15 billion more. At least hell will stay in the middle east, right? Trump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jr-boosts-smear-tying-missing-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-to-islamic-terrorism Donald Trump Jr. on Friday promoted a smear tying Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to Osama bin Laden, retweeting a series of tweets meant to imply that the Saudi commentator, who has been missing since last week, supported Islamic terrorism. With President Trump apparently reluctant to punish Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi’s alleged murder after he entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, conservative pundits have been straining to provide excuses for U.S. inaction. The trumps, the best puppets Saudi cash can buy.

China September exports surge, creating record surplus with U.S. despite tariffs https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-trade/chinas-september-export-growth-tops-forecasts-surplus-with-u-s-record-high-idUSKCN1MM080 China’s vast export engine unexpectedly kicked into higher gear in September, producing a record trade surplus with the United States that could exacerbate the already-heated dispute between Beijing and Washington. ... September exports rose 14.5 percent from a year earlier, the fastest pace since February, the customs data showed. That was well above August’s 9.8 percent and a Reuters poll forecast of 8.9 percent. “The big picture is the Chinese exports have so far held up well in the face of escalating trade tensions and cooling global growth, most likely thanks to the competitiveness boost provided by a weaker renminbi,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics. " Just more winning for trump. Why Germany Is Betting on Trade With China https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-11/germany-is-thriving-in-china-as-trump-s-trade-war-poses-risk An investment push is bringing the countries closer together in spite of — and because of — rising trade tensions with the U.S. When Sabine Herold opened a new Shanghai facility in September, the milestone for her tiny Bavarian glue maker was the culmination of 14 years of careful development — and a sign of how deep and wide commercial ties between Germany and China have become. Piling into China with Bosch drills, Mercedes-Benz cars and Siemens turbines has made the Asian country Germany’s largest business partner for the past two years. Total trade between the two reached $179 billion in 2017, double the U.K.’s level and triple that of France. Germany’s special status became clear in July, when BASF SE announced a $10 billion plant in Guangdong province — the first large manufacturing site in China entirely owned by a foreign chemicals maker. Now, BMW AG is plowing $4.1 billion into its Chinese joint venture, taking advantage of a new policy to let foreign companies take majority control of their local partnerships. According to trump. America will win by trading with itself and the world agrees. ‘The world just moves on without us’: Japan and EU sign a trade deal http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-world-just-moves-without-us-japan-and-eu-sign-trade-deal Canada can avoid offending U.S. by pursuing sectoral trade with China: report https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-sectoral-trade-report-1.4857990 Canada and 10 other countries agree to new Trans-Pacific trade pact, without the U.S. https://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/canada-and-rest-of-trans-pacific-partnership-agree-to-revised-text-say-reports

Putin has put a full deployment order out. How Russian spies bungled cyber-attack on weapons watchdog https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/how-russian-spies-bungled-cyber-attack-on-weapons-watchdog With US leadership DOA only Russian incompetence is keeping themselves in check.

Nor is it what the world used to believe it to be. World's Approval of U.S. Leadership Drops to New Low https://news.gallup.com/poll/225761/world-approval-leadership-drops-new-low.aspx U.S. Falls in Human Development Ranking https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/leader-to-laggard-u-s-falls-in-human-development-ranking The U.S. has dropped in a global ranking of human development -- tumbling eight spots since the start of the decade to No. 13, according to a United Nations index tracking health, education and economic well-being. Trump’s economic boom is only for the rich — and likely won’t help Republicans in midterms https://www.salon.com/2018/09/14/trumps-economic-boom-is-only-for-the-rich-and-likely-wont-help-republicans-in-midterms/ Putin and the FSB. Plan and execute.